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  1. Re:Carbon Nanotubes on U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium · · Score: 1

    There ain't much spare space in cells and logically evolution would drive the most compact possible electrical energy source.

  2. Re:Huh, that's surprising on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    This is not a conspiracy it is simple logical extrapolation. The FBI is aware of incursions into specific computer networks, they do not know who has committed the incursions, hence literally those person or persons are anonymous, as they are anonymous logically they must be a member of "Anonymous", else they would not be anonymous.

    Fucking, Bloody, Idiot, thinking, what could be more obvious. Here's a hint, unless they have been caught and prosecuted and they publicly claim to be a member of Anonymous, they are not members of "Anonymous". Which in turn, logically would be illogical, because once your claim to be a member of "Anonymous", you are no longer anonymous and logically can no longer be a member of "Anonymous". After all logically to be a member of "Anonymous" one must be and remain anonymous.

    So now extrapolating the current claim according to Fucking, Bloody, Idiot, thinking every questionable act committed by person or persons unknown, who are anonymous as a result of being unknown, must all be members of "Anonymous", which then according to the FBI must be by far the largest conspiratorial multi-national organisation upon the face of the planet. Here's betting with that kind of logic the FBI will end up spending an awful lot of time chasing their own tails.

  3. 3. Insurance is not paid in the event of traffic infringement no matter how minor or that it did not contribute to the accident, this includes any attempt at evasive action and also penalty reductions for not taking effective evasive action. Current logically trend is not to trust insurance companies especially if the device can be tweaked to say over report speed during an accident so as to inavildate any insurance claim.

  4. Re:They pop up and notify me they are running. on Ask Slashdot: What Makes You Uninstall Apps? · · Score: 1

    Catch with adds is the simply cost to much (generate traffic and, initiate connections). So the is a balance of the quality of the app, how readily available an alternate is, how worthwhile it is buying one (considering the long term investment in use).

    Next privacy, how invasive the app currently is and worse how invasive will the developers become. Google tends to be a bunch of over the top asshats by not providing filters for add free and foss apps, basically being a real pack of shit heads. People are learning that the Apple market and Android market are vastly different, the Apple market being victims of marketing and the Android market being much more advertising resistant.

    In the end if an Android app doesn't provide substantive long term benefit, the easiest and by far safest choice is to delete it. On the Apple side, it just means you haven't spent enough on advertising to convince them it does something great regardless of what actual benefit it provides.

  5. Re:Carbon Nanotubes on U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nature has always gone with calcium as the most energy efficient electrical energy medium, a deeper look there especially in nano structures would also be worthwhile.

  6. Re:And people called Atlas Shrugged Fiction.... on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 1

    More realistically Venezualas currency is under continuous attack by US currency manipulations don in concert by the corporations that run the US government. Obviously any currency backed by oil in today's economic climate should be doing really well and the only reason it isn't is due to constant economic attack by the US government, not for the benefit of the US people of course, simply for the attempted benefit of multi-national corporations who want to split up Venezuelans natural resources and of course kill any Venezuelans who protest to loudly. This is done with the support of Venezuela's rich and greedy psychopathic families who want to go back to the old days where the majority of the population lived in poverty and only a tiny minority had access to any quality of life goods and services. Much the same as similar forces are trying to implement in the US.

  7. Re:Main effect: The good ones will leave on Don't Call It Stack Rank: Yahoo's QPR System For Culling Non-Performers · · Score: 1

    Nope, there is an infallible test for psychopathy, 100% totally impossible to cheat. Basically measures the brains emotional response, first the empathic trigger and then the control to limit the impact of that trigger, two different brain regions. So put them in the chair, fit the electrodes and they are done period, psychopathy measured on a scale of 0 to 20 where 0 is the norm. Basically a test that should be compulsory for all persons seeking political office, all public officials and all senior executives of public companies. The world would become a better place pretty quickly there in after.

  8. Re: ***FEAR*** as a very powerful tool on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 2

    The fear spread by Fox not-News was a masquerade getting the electorate to fear everything possible except those they truly did need to fear, those that have stolen their democracy out from underneath them. The rich and greedy, the real threat, the psychopaths at the helm of a self destructing society. Those that paid for the ads on Fox not-News and who in return got additional propaganda as news to favour what ever they wanted it to favour, basically politics for sale to the highest bidder. So next time there is any brand of US President, and make no mistake with the current brand Fox not-News is doing a top masquerade job by repeatedly attacking them for what they are not in the vain attempt of hiding what they are, an exact political continuation of the Reagan political era, shifting further right season by season. You have a Republican president, that is about as far from a progressive liberal as you can get.

  9. Re:Bridge on Mark Shuttleworth Apologizes for Trademark Action Against Fix Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that Mark Shuttleworth did not actually apologise that somehow that apology letter is a new legal attack aimed at silencing the critic at https://fixubuntu.com/ with a quite specific and singular complaint with regard to targeted marketing incorporated in dash https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/ubuntu-help/unity-dash-intro.html. A further article tackling this complaint might be useful https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks. Seems pretty genuine to me. As for disclosure http://www.ubuntu.com/privacy-policy/third-parties seems pretty clear to me, DASH internet search off.

  10. Re:except they aren't on Twitter's Fake Followers Watching IPO Closely · · Score: 2

    Reality was the paid trolls lacked the intellectual capacity to actively troll /. without being recognised and the product they were promoting targeted, not the trolls themselves, as this is a pointless activity but the promoted product. They didn't just give up though, they attempted to kill /. by flooding the first few pages of comments with back and fourth idiot twitter like chatter but when whole threads started getting killed, it disrupted that tactic. So paying for promotion was doing more harm than good, last major product of /. counter attack was Apple. /. has a wide base of computer geeks/nerds, scientists and, journalists amongst others. So ideas put up here and challenged here can end up getting a wide spread beyond /.

    When it comes to being a worthy demographic of paid shills being naive, gullible and a victim of marketing is nothing to be proud of but rather ashamed of and that is the group that paid shills consider the most worthy. There just isn't any point targeting a group that will definitely question and challenge and if found truly wanting attack it with fervour.

    As for twitter, it is likely near at it's peak as with any social fad and being a follower, I mean seriously a follower ("I worship you please deign to anoint me with your most worth once sentence dribble and bring light to my most miserable existence"), who in hell really wants to acknowledge their own pitiful existence as to be a follower of someone else's single sentence dribble. Talk about truly desperately needing to get a life of their own. So that will be twitters downfall, the public acknowledgement of the lameness of being a twitter follower, a sheep following the herd and the ridicule that follows.

  11. Re:Wonder about the mileage on First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights · · Score: 1

    Only for those that lack empathy, basically psychopaths. For sane normal humans being the need for it is sickening and disgusting, as for being required to participate, I believe the correct saying is "It is better to die on your feet than die on your knees". For the boot lickers death at a whim is their and their families inevitable reward.

  12. Re:Bull on There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not For Fracking · · Score: 1

    More likely the Israeli and puppet US sanctions are facing criticism and doubt and the US is more amendable to negotiation rather than being left to look like Israel's fool as the rest of the world abandons the sanctions. Israel of course will be kicking US politician's heads to continue the sanctions as Israel continues to attempt to position itself as the main power in the middle east, with the US military as it's puppet attack dog. The success or failure of the talks will be dependent upon how much face the US is willing to lose when the sanctions collapse. As for Israel's nuclear weapons, the US continues to play the fool and is now being globally recognised as Israel's court jester in the UN, both countries are suffering politically as a result.

  13. Re:This is not a fair comparison on Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Nexus 5 resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels - iPhone 5 resolution 640 Ã-- 1136. Any graphics or gaming comparison is absolutely pointless, the Android phone is shifting about 2.5 times the pixels. First drop the resolution of the Android phone from 1080 x 1920 to 640 x 1136 then do the test or use a similar low res Android phone. In this case Apple has gone down the total bullshit route.

  14. Re:Main effect: The good ones will leave on Don't Call It Stack Rank: Yahoo's QPR System For Culling Non-Performers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not all employees are the same. Some employees are in fact a sub-species of humanity psychopaths, no matter the system of remuneration they will spend more time trying to 'game' the system that actually doing there job. The psychopaths number one focus on the job, take credit for good work and ideas from as many people as possible and blame them for them for your mistakes. A pattern will represented in your typical psychopath, corporate executive.

    So the trick is all down to recruiting, avoid the bad people and getting the good people. Never forget just one psychopath can destroy the effectiveness of a hundred employees, by creating a hostile destructive work place. So going forward psych testing will be the best way but and here's the great big fat but, leading corporate executives are likely to reject because, it would threaten them personally.

    Create a system of competition amongst employees and the plotters and schemers will team together and win. Better employees will be disgusted by it all and quite simply bail and go else where. It'll look good while they are loosing employees and as Yahoo's revenue continues to drop whilst profits increase but inevitably the incompetent CEO with no ideas will hit the management wall and those falling revenues will start eating profits.

  15. Re:Ahh, predicting the future... on Construction Firm Balfour Beatty Considers Drone Workers · · Score: 1

    KISS, keep it simple stupid. So, reality check. Need vs Greed, Humanity vs Psychopathy, Socialism vs Capitalism. Reality here, the current crop of greedy psychopathic capitalists at the top will kill as many as they need to in order to stay at the top and turn the majority into body slaves of one form or another. For the sane majority the choice is how early to nip this insanity, the later, the more will die and the more brutal it will become.

    NEED vs GREED, that is what it is all about.

  16. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    So getting people to use far more efficient wood burning stoves, that cost far less in resources to run is, fucking the poor. I would have thought that more efficient stoves would allow poorer people to have more heat and not less. How about freedom, should I not be free to enjoy the atmosphere without your inefficient wood burning stove smoke. My current neighbour has a smokey stove, leaving me to check my house from one to the other to make sure it is not on fire, when they light up. You know, where the is smoke there is fire and when you don't have a fireplace and you smell smoke, you are then forced to check, really quite annoying. So being a libertarians means having the right to fuck over your neighbour when it's more convenient for you to do so.

  17. Re:The Type on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 1

    Stop and think about it. This ban will be the worst kind of rough housing, solid sustained mental abuse. This will cause real mental harm to the students affected, a ban on any phsyical contact. How the heel do you sustain that. Two students bump in a hallway, detention. One student shakes another students hand just like their parents do all the time (are their parents deviants?), reprimand and suspension. Tap on the shoulder, charged with assault, how come the teacher can touch a student, is it sick when their parents touch them on the shoulder.

    Physical contact is a normal part of human relationships the schools nor it's supervisors or teachers have the right to mentally scar those children for life by turning normal contact into a punishable offence.

  18. Re:Used to this yet? on Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster · · Score: 1

    There is a good reason these kinds of activities are called witch hunts. All these kinds of purges have the same thing on common, those conservative stooges squatting in the background, did not target those who threatened the state, but they targeted anyone and everyone who threatened their power, who had something they wanted or who were targets of sexual abuse that refused.

    That is the true driver for the huge numbers. Not the number of political dissidents but all those targets of political insiders to had access to the political mechanisms of abuse and use them to feed their own greed, ego and lusts. tens of thousands of conservative political insiders, with many victims. Don't make the mistake of not thinking they were political conservatives because they most definitely were as far as their own particular brand of politics was concerned.

  19. Re:Yea, Right! on The Silk Road Is Back · · Score: 1

    Obviously the first arrest and shutdown, was all about targeting the site operators, for that task force their goal had been achieved and now it was time to cash in, go for the publicity and get those promotions and they couldn't see beyond that.

    Now along comes a second task forcing, eyeing the information and the assets that have been confiscated and undoubtedly with tech support from the NSA they are likely going for the mass arrest goal. Arrest, prosecute and persecute as many individuals as possible. Think of the confiscation of assets, most of the people would be logging in from their homes, so don't just confiscate their assets, confiscate their homes, they don't deserve one any how, as according ot the continuing policies of Uncle Tom Obama the Choom Gang coward they deserve to live in prison or on the streets.

    So mass confiscation of assets and of course justification of mass NSA spying techniques, all based around destroying the lives of fellow citizens for daring to use drugs, banned because 'er' apparently according to conservatives, people getting high is worse than repeated homosexual rape in prison. So how many will be set up for destruction before they pull the plug this time, 100, 1,000, 10,000. Will the try to keep it secret and claim odours from people's house's lead to trigger happy raids where likely 1 in 10 will die.

  20. Re:Market Consolisation on Silicon Valley Could Be Heading For a New Stock Collapse. · · Score: 2

    Hows, this then. As always insider's are using their marketing channels to right targeted stories to threaten current stock prices. These insider's are major brokerage firms who use statistics of their own customers to measure overall market debt exposure on puts and shorts to measure whether the market can be pushed into a run. So normal market adjustments for particular over hyped companies (done by the same companies that are trying to market a run on stocks) can be pushed into the broader market via the advertising chain and targeted stories. I just found this round a little boring and treated it with the contempt it deserved, still regardless it is more than your little whine.

  21. Market Consolisation on Silicon Valley Could Be Heading For a New Stock Collapse. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Less bubble driven pie in the sky greed and more mature market consolidation. The weakest in the herd are failing behind and will be preyed upon by vulture capitalists like Mittens and that's the ones you really have to watch out for, after the vultures have chewed out the juicy bit's and left it a debt ridden hulk with really 'imaginative' book work, pension funds usually buy them (after those pension fund managers make a visit to an offshore tax haven, to 'er' review their balance sheet with the vulture capitalists, purchasing bonuses).

  22. Re: Blackberry's back! on BlackBerry Abandons Sale Plans, Will Replace CEO · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't forget Apple had to get all the way down there first and Blackberry still has a ways to go down yet. For all the winners there are losers Epson ( and I ain't talking salt), Palm (no oil there now), Wang (gone all limp now), Gateway (to no where), Apricot (just not fruity enough), Commodore (no ship to sail), to name just a very few. Most crash very very few rebound.

  23. Re:Remind me on You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles · · Score: 1

    Google+ is a social media website, that Google has struggled to get many people to use. Apparently they have now come up with a patently scheme to extort anybody who is looking for a job into using it by using the Google search algorithm and substituting circle connections for web links. The extortion being around the failure to work at generating sufficient circle connections, so either conform as demanded by Google, join Google+ and establish those circle connections or be publicly declared by Google as being unfit for employment.

    SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK GOOGLE?

  24. Re:Assumptions on 4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Implement luxury taxes, where wasteful uses of energy are taxed at far higher rates. Jewellery, cosmetics, luxury estates, large recreational vessels etc. Being rich is not a licence to consumer and pollute at insane levels just so you can be a poseur amongst the countless less fortunate. At least the would force the rich and greedy to switch to less wasteful less pollution generating products, often regardless of cost, due to their myopic paranoia when it comes to paying taxes.

  25. Re:Two things to remember about polygraphs: on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 1

    You also forget, psychopaths, those person most likely amongst us all to commit the worst crimes imaginable, pass polygraphs no problem at all, an absence of conscience makes it inevitably. So a test that allows the worst amongst us and in many cases those that actually committed the targeted crimes, pass. Polygraph, a test to catch the ignorant and honest.